September 16, 2022
QUOTE
The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.
--Karl Donitz
BIRTHDAYS
1386 – Henry V of England
1891 – Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany
1914 – Allen Funt, Director, producer, and screenwriter
1925 – B.B. King, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1927 – Peter Falk, Actor
1949 – Ed Begley Jr., Actor and environmental activist
IN MEMORY
1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer
1824 – Louis XVIII of France
1965 – Fred Quimby, Animator and producer
2016 – Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, French-born American businessman
IN ON THIS DAY
1779 – During the American Revolutionary War the Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
1975 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
2004 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.